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US 9,756,209 B2Granted
Close-up photography method and terminal supporting the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMihyang Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Kwangweon Park, Yoywang Im
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Abstract
A terminal and a close-up photography method using the same are disclosed. The terminal includes a transparent display unit having front and rear surfaces through which light passes, the transparent display unit having a set thickness, at least one camera module disposed on the transparent display unit, configured to acquire an image of a subject in a direction of penetrating the transparent display unit, and a controller configured to control the camera module.
Claims20
A terminal, comprising:
- a transparent display unit having front and rear surfaces through which light passes to illuminate a subject proximate to the rear surface of the transparent display unit, the transparent display unit having a set thickness;
- at least one camera module disposed at the transparent display unit, configured to acquire an image of the subject displayed through a display area of the transparent display unit in a direction configured to penetrate the transparent display unit;
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- a controller configured to control the camera module and to control the transparent display unit to display the image of the subject proximate to the rear surface of the transparent display unit on the front surface of the transparent display unit transparently through front and rear surfaces of the terminal.
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A close-up photography method, comprising:
- activating a camera module including at least one camera which are disposed at a front side of a transparent display unit of a terminal, and employ a wide view angle lens;
- photographing an image using the at least one camera of a subject disposed on a rear side of the transparent display unit, wherein the subject is displayed by light passing through a display area of the transparent display unit and the terminal which is transparently controlled via a controller, and
- displaying the image, which the at least one camera photographed, of the subject proximate to the rear surface of the transparent display unit on the front side of the transparent display unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.